The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-10-06
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
PERSONS AND THINGS THROUGHOUT
NORTH CAROLINA

for It's Busy Renders.
Hickory is to have a $4,000 hotel.
Raleigh's water works are er tirely
satisfactory. They cost 100000.
Wilmington and New Berne both
want the G. F. Il Y. " r. R.
Raieigh's tobacco market is en- the
increase. Five new prize houses are
going up.
Gov. Scales has appointed j. H.
Henderson, of Norfolk, Va, Com
missioner Of Deeds for North Carolina.
The iron horse now stops at Pilot
Mountain. Mt. Airy expects it by
Janusry.
Durham's band now rejoices in all
the glory Of new uniform of red,
white and blue.
The j. M. Worth Manufacturing
Go. is putting in electric lights at Ran
dleman.
The Fayetteville Observer says
Messrs. A. S. Huske Go, shipped up
to August %, over 1000 baskets of
scuppernong grapes.
The old State is progressing. Ruth
erforiton, little in size, but big in vim
has voted $4,000 to street improve
ments.
Senator Vance is at his big named
home up in Buncombe county fiddling
and gathering strength for the Ohio
campaign.
4 cyclone scurried around near
Sharon township Inst Wednesday and
carried away few fences and tree
tops.
Tokay vineyard at Fayetteville is
the largest in the State. 1t covers 125
acres, and this year Col Green ex-
poets to make at least $4,000 Gallons
of wine.
Capt 4. d. Jones, of Raleigh will
deliver the address on October 18th,
the anniversary Of laying the fuunda-
tion Of the Old East Building, at Chap
el Hill in 1898.
Raleigh merchants have boycotted
the Raleigh d CASTOR Railroad, on
account Of sudden snd exhorbitant
rise in freight rates. The railroad
will have to yield.
Oxford is d growing town. Major
W. Fl. Gregory, says that forty stores
will be built this year, all of brick.
| Thirty are now in course %t-c16 -
ton. He contends that Oxforc .c.s,.s
the State in building operations
The Lexington canning factory
puts up about 500 cans per day. Their
output for the season will be fully 20,-
900 cans. 1t is in this way that North
Carolina must gain wealth. 1t won't
do to depend too much Oh blast furn-
aces and railroads We must sell
our peaches, apples and tomatoes.
DR.. Chas. w. Dabney, Jr. late
State Chemist aud director of the
North Carolina agricultural expert
ment station, at Raleigh, has catered
upon his duties rs President Of the
University Of Tennessee and director
Of the agricultural experiment station
at Knoxville, Tennessee, where ne has
a WIDER field of usefulness opened b9.
fore him.
Mr. VIM. Sergers Il, who is identi-
fed with the firm Of Sergerson IL Co.,
3f Philadelphia, the largest shuttle
| block manufacturing concern in the
| United States, has decided to embark
n an enterprise III North Carolin@
He has leased the old mill of K. B.
Britain & Co, ut Morganton, and
will convert it into shuttle block
factory.
The last Legislature provided (by
ch. 355, Laws 1880 that any county
whose county commissioners may 80
elect, may work its prisoners sentenc
ed to Jail, also its penitentiary COLI
victs, sentenced to less than ten ears,
on the public roads Of the county.
Iredell, Rowan, Davidson and other
counties are 80 doing The resul. is
that prisoners instead of lying idle in
jaiis, are working the roads, and the
number being sent to the penitentiary
is diminishing. This may soon solve
the penitentiary problem.
The Richmond and Danville's COM
prehensive display of products gather
ed up along its lines for display at the
Atlanta Exposition, to be under the
able supervision Of Mr.. G. c.. .McPhail
of Thomasville, will compose valua-
bic department for our State, especial
ly the western section, which furnishes
valuable and superior woods. South
Carolina and Virginia are showing up
too, but without doubt, North Caro-
lima will show the finest minerals.
A negro lawyer is turning the cash
into his pocket at Wake Forest by
charging SO for application for loan
of money with which to buy land. He
claims to represent an English COM
pany with capital stock Of s30,000,-
900 who are pining to lend it to any
body who will invest it in land and
pay interest at s per cent. Such bum
mers ought to be made to feel the law.
Another venerable and gifted North
Carolinian is gone. He is Mr.. Nath
an A. Stedman, who died at his home
in Fayetteville on last Thursday, aged
81 years He was elected to the Leg
islature from Chatham county when
only 81 years old, was clerk of the
court and eventually Comptroller OF
the State. He was the father of Lieu
tenant-Governor Stedman. His death
lis mourned by large circle of friends